Verification of patient-specific dose distributions in proton therapy using a commercial two-dimensional ion chamber array

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5831-5837

  Arjomandy, Bijan ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Ciangaru, George ^a   Zhu, Ronald ^a   Song, Xiaofei ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

2D ion chamber array; dose distribution verification; MatriXX; proton therapy; treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PIXELS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; SCANNING; UROLOGY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; MATRIXX; PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 78149436920     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3505011     Document Type: Article

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